The Russellville Democrat., 1887-01-12
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

I Slight earthquake shocks were fell In Maryland on the 3rd and 4th i.ssssss. 1 The Vatican s. Rome is debating the Knights Of Labor question in America. 1 Secretary Lamar was married at 10 o'clock, on the 5th inst, to Mrs. Holt, at Macon, Ga.
 I Congress met on the 4th inst. and ad- journed, out of respect to the memory 1 of Gen. Logan.
 A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Summerville, s. O., on the morning vf the 9th inst.
 The total loss by fire in the United States and Canada in 1866 is estimated at SIG, 100000.
 Fire destroyed nearly all of the vil- lage of Duck Greek, near Dallas, Tex, on the Eth inst.
 New York is threatened with coal famine, owing to the strike of the New Jersey coal-heavers.
 John Roach, the noted ship-builder, is on his death-bed, his recovery being pro- nounced impossible.
 The Northern Pacific shops at Fargo, Dak., were burned on the 7th inst, en- tailing loss of $2O0,000.
 The house committee on civil service reform, on the Sth inst, reported back the senate bill repeating the tenure of office act.
 The president has nominated James Spencer, of Whitehall, N. Y., for associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota.
 The legislatures of Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois and Nebraska assembled op the 4th inst.
 Thos. c. Manning, of Louisiana, has been appointed by the president envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotcn- tiary to Mexico.
 It has been learned at Atlanta, Ga., that the British government has refused to allow the Gate City Guards to enter England on their proposed tour.
 James Acheson, who embedded $2, ,000 from the Hotel Florence at Pullman, H.. was sentenced to pay fine of $100 and to five months Imprisonment.
 Of the 5000 miles of railroad con structed in 1886 over 4 4,0Q0 were in Kan sas, Nebraska, Dakota, Minnesota and Texas and 1900 in the Eastern and Southeastern States.
 Miss Ollie Brewer, of Middletown, N, r.. has been committed to an insane asylum, her insanity being caused by slanderous reports said to have been circulated concerning her.
 It appears that Wittrock compelled the detectives to satisfy $l,700 mortgage on his mothers residence be- fore he would s'turn up" any of the money stolen from the express com- pany.
 The secretary of the treasury has ap- pointed Hebert F. Beecher to be special agent of the treasury. He is son of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, ,and was for merly collector of customs at Port Townsend. w. T.
 Frank B. Mcdonald, son of Ex-Sena- tor Mcdonald, died in Washington, on the 7th inst. of heart disease. He had been for some years clerk in the treasury department. His remains were taken to Indiana today for burial.
 The commissions of 155 presidential postmasters will expire during the months of February and March next. Of these 115 will expire in February, and forty in March. These lists complete aspirations until the assem- bling of the Fiftieth congress, December 5, 1887.
 In the criminal court at St. Louis, on the 7th inst. counsel for Fotheringham applied for reduction of his clients bail. He was indicted on two charges grand larceny and that of receiving stolen property. The court fixed the bail in each case at $500. The original amount was 20,000-$l0,000 in each case.
 A collision occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near Titfin. Ohio, on the 4th inst, between a fast passenger train and freight train, both under full headway. The coaches were tele- scoped and immediately caught fire. The total number of passengers on the train was sixty-fve. At least fifteen were killed and twelve wounded.
 Brevet Brig. .-Gen. Thomas Duncan, U. 5. A., retired, died on the 7th inst, at his residence in Washington City. During the war Gen. Duncan was struck on the head by cannon ball and DOT tion of the skull knocked off. Trepan- ming was rcsorted to, and for more than twenty years ne mas worn suNcr pidtc which took the place of the abstracted portions of the shattered skull.
 Fred Wittrock, Thomas Weaver and Wm. W. Haight, the three persons inn plicated in the Adams express robbery on the Missouri Pacific railway, when Messenger Fotheringham was on the express car, were taken into the crim- inal court at St. Louis on the 4th inst, when they pleaded guilty. Wittrock and Haight got seven years and Weaver i've years in the penitentiary at Jefier- son City.
 Nicholas NJ. Bell, superintendent of foreign mails, has received information from the Brussels director of posts that on December 16, l26 of the United States registered packages, lost in the mail robbery of November Y, were found unopened under sofa in one of the parlors of the Grand hotel at Brus- sels. Fourteen packages, found at the same time and place, had been rified of their contents.
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